Lippincott - Designer

Marsh Agency; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Lippincott’s design team delivers creative solutions across brand, strategy, and digital experiences in a fast-paced environment. You’ll blend UX/UI with visual design to craft intuitive, engaging experiences across print, digital, and interactive media.

As a designer, you’ll work with a cross-disciplinary team on brand activations, UI toolkits, and motion concepts, using InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Figma to bring ideas to life while maintaining a strong point of view

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 year of experience in graphic or visual design
• Demonstrated creative ability through a strong design portfolio across a range of static, dynamic, and interactive media
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or equivalent portfolio
• Strong technical abilities in Adobe programs (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop), as well as motion and interaction design software (After Effects and Figma)
• Highly organized with the ability to effectively set priorities and manage your time
• Ability to clearly articulate ideas verbally and in writing, and provide rationale for how your ideas help further the client’s strategic objectives

Responsibilities

• Research trends in typography, illustrations, UI, or other branding related elements
• Analyze and report on the competitive design landscape
• Have a clear point-of-view, and act as an advocate for usability, as you bring ideas from conceptual to functional
• Assist in research and initial concept planning, including moodboard creation, to inform exploration and design development
• Ideate logo concepts with consideration for how they come to life in motion
• Help bring to life a visual system across key touchpoints from social media to signage

Skills

UX/UI design

Brand design

Motion design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in graphic design

Tools

InDesign

Illustrator

Photoshop

After Effects

Figma

Job description

Lippincott’s Design team plays a pivotal role in offering creative solutions to brand, innovation, and culture challenges. Whether it’s perfecting the cadence of a key presentation or discovering a new path to engage users in an online experience, we lend the best of design thinking to the rest of our practices, from Strategy to Organizational Engagement, Innovation, New Business, and internal or marketing initiatives.
As a Designerat Lippincott, you will work with our expert design team on a variety of projects in and related to brand and innovation across print, digital, and interactive experiences. No day is the same and your work could range from brainstorming ideas for a launch activation of a new brand, to pitching names for a new AI chatbot, or exploring a UI toolkit for a new mobile app experience. We look for designers with skills and experiences across a range of media who will bring self-initiative to their projects and daily routine. We also look for designers with the ability to blend UX/UI sensibilities with brand and visual design to help create intuitive, engaging experiences that resonate on both functional and emotional levels. To be successful in this role, you should demonstrate experience with Adobe programs (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop), as well as some experience with motion and interaction design software (After Effects and Figma).

In Your Day-to-day, You Will

Be Analytical

• Research trends in typography, illustrations, UI, or other branding related elements
• Analyze and report on the competitive design landscape
• Have a clear point-of-view, and act as an advocate for usability, as you bring ideas from conceptual to functional
• Assist in research and initial concept planning, including moodboard creation, to inform exploration and design development

Be Creative

• Ideate logo concepts with consideration for how they come to life in motion
• Help bring to life a visual system across key touchpoints from social media to signage
• Develop preliminary concepts into well crafted, refined, and comprehensive design solutions across brand touchpoints (print, digital, interactive, motion, three-dimensional, environmental, etc.)
• Think in terms of systems with some technical knowledge

Contribute to Client and Internal Projects

• Work individually and collaboratively to advance design concepts and thinking
• Participate in brainstorms, creative work sessions, and internal meetings
• Assist in producing client presentations
• Assist in gathering materials and updating exhibits for case studies
• Participate in initiatives that build our firm and culture

We Look For You To

Be Knowledgeable

• Minimum 3 year of experience in graphic or visual design
• Demonstrated creative ability through a strong design portfolio across a range of static, dynamic, and interactive media
• Willingness and enthusiasm toward extending knowledge about technology/media, production process, design applications, and working methods
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design or equivalent portfolio

Be Skilled

• Strong technical abilities in Adobe programs (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop), as well as experience with motion and interaction design software (After Effects and Figma)
• Highly organized with the ability to effectively set priorities and manage your time
• Ability to clearly articulate ideas verbally and in writing, and provide rationale for how your ideas help further the client’s strategic objectives

Demonstrate Lippincott’s Values

• A true passion for design, branding, and innovation, and what it can achieve
• Hold yourself and your work to a very high standard, pushing ideas further to challenge yourself and our clients’ ways of thinking
• Constructively participate as part of a project team, bringing optimism and a collaborative spirit to build on and nurture ideas
• Desire to proactively seek constructive feedback and input to develop your knowledge, skills, and thinking
• Demand better, reach higher, and expect more of yourself and your colleagues, while demonstrating gratitude and offering support in your everyday actions
• Celebrate debate, discussion, disagreement, and feedback, with an open mind to new ways of thinking and doing
• Support others and embrace optimism; act with passion, intention, and goodwill while building on and elevating everyone’s contributions and sharing in our collective success

About Lippincott

Lippincott is a global brand, marketing, and experience consultancy. Since 1943, we’ve helped ambitious leaders find the beautiful answers hiding inside their toughest challenges, turning them into brands and ideas that live in the real world and create lasting business value. As part of Oliver Wyman, we bring high-caliber industry, risk, and operational insight to every engagement, pairing a management consultancy’s strategic rigor with a proven legacy of creativity that works.

Who We Are, Together

We promote a culture of collaboration and performance through our three core values:

Demanding better

Our pioneering spirit compels us to reach higher — we expect more of ourselves and each other. We also recognize the above-and-beyond dedication of our colleagues, demonstrating gratitude and offering support in our everyday actions.

Wide open

Unique perspectives, diverse personal experiences, and untapped ideas fuel our craft. We celebrate debate, discussion, disagreement and feedback, opening ourselves to new ways of thinking and doing.

Yes, and!

We champion one another and embrace optimism. We act with passion, intention, and goodwill — building on and elevating our combined contributions, and sharing in our collective success.
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Lippincott is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions at Lippincott are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualificationswithout regard to race, national origin, age, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in locations where we operate. We are committed to promoting a workplace that we are all proud to be a part of.